Prohibition in the United States
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title:
Prohibition in the United States
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The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. The alcohol industry was curtailed by a succession of state legislatures, and Prohibition was formally introduced nationwide under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919. Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment on
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encyclopedia
description:
Alcohol ban, 1920–1933
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States
date created:
2006-09-24T22:50:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T18:54:10Z
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